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Le Cid — Corneille’s tragicomedy, first performed in January 1637 and published the same year
A tragicomedy in five acts and in verse, drawn from a Spanish play, which met immediate triumph at the Théâtre du Marais and at once set off a quarrel over the rules: the Académie française, founded two years earlier, was called on to judge it. (Editorial synthesis)
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